Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you have to get some of them in to make good scores . |
| 2 | If she strapped them down to make herself look boyish they just stuck out a foot farther down , and ached . |
| 3 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 4 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |
| 5 | It seems that there is always someone around to make life difficult : sometime this spring the New Routes book was stolen from Pete 's Eats . |
| 6 | He checked himself over to make sure there was no blood on his clothes . |
| 7 | ‘ Market maker ’ is defined as including any person on a recognised exchange , whether an individual , partner , or company , who holds himself out to make a continuous succession of prices and is recognised as doing so by that exchange . |
| 8 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 9 | Was she about to make some obeisance to it ? |
| 10 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 11 | Things begin to crack ; sometimes the cracks become gaps and then we can open them up to make spaces full of creative possibility , but sometimes the cracks become fissures and everything collapses and we have to scratch around in the rubble looking for bits of junk that we can cobble together into something ripe with meaning . |
| 12 | For example , we gave some a picture showing some batteries and a light bulb and asked them to show how they would connect them up to make the light bulb glow . |
| 13 | It is not even a question of reducing the time spent on formal aspects of the language system and squeezing them up to make room for a newcomer . |
| 14 | Look after the twins and try to make sure they negotiate the reefs of puberty and adolescence , set them up to make their way in the world , and do so without becoming just like me … |
| 15 | I saved money on cot sheets because I bought a couple of king-size sheets and cut them up to make three cot sheets out of each one . |
| 16 | Ballantyne 's character , Ralph , even tries to wake them up to make it more sportsmanlike but Jack does not let him . |
| 17 | Erm , but he basically de-soldered the resistor from the motherboard , soldered another one in to make it run slower . |
| 18 | The crew have got a couple of machines which churn everything up to make white water and the chippie ran up some rocks which they anchor to the bottom of the river and look just like the real thing . |
| 19 | Size everything up to make sure it 's too big to swallow . |
| 20 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 21 | Beyond the park , in some parts of England such as East Anglia , the bulldozer rams at the old hedges , blots them out to make fields big and vacant enough for the machines of the new ranch-farming and the business-men farmers of five to ten thousand acres . |
| 22 | draw round them just put them put them out like that and when you 've put them out to make a a pattern you can say if you just work with twelve first . |
| 23 | Took them out to make the tea did you get any biscuits ? |
| 24 | But seeing her sister 's eyes turn from contemplating the deep indigo square of sky above the courtyard , and come to rest on her face in grief-stricken entreaty , she faltered , shrugged , and with impatient gestures , moved her over to make room on the bench where she dumped herself down . |
| 25 | A Labour government would be wise to send him off to make a very long film in India . |
| 26 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |
| 27 | The British production company Zenith were so impressed by Hal Hartley 's first feature that they signed him up to make TRUST , which we will be screening at the festival . |
| 28 | It is creative in the true sense of that ill-used word , creative because it invites the reader to use his own critical and inventive faculties , sends him out to make discoveries , form his own opinions , observe things for himself , instead of slavishly accepting what the books tell him . |
| 29 | Prison authorities on the Rock said he was taken to hospital after guards spotted him about to make an attempt on his own life early on Sunday . |
| 30 | He boils a kettle and pours it in to make the water very hot . |